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Message: [QUOTE="mbr33ct, post: 2371613, member: 7842"] In the same article, two prevention's are mentioned (see below). Don't know if schools have some type of ACL prevention in place to their programs but I would suggest the NCAA implement some form of these two programs, perhaps even making the programs mandatory to their "student athletes". Maybe the NCAA, "focusing on growing WBB popularity" (from another thread) should be focusing their attention to these ACL's. [B][SIZE=5] Two prevention programs reduce risk, increase performance[/SIZE][/B] A 2011 study in the journal [I]Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach[/I],5 found that two prevention programs, Sportsmetrics and PEP not only significantly reduced ACL injury rates but improved athletic performance. In general, experts say there are four ways to reduce the risk of ACL injury: [LIST] [*]Proper leg muscle strength training and core training; [*]Proper neuromuscular (balance and speed) training; [*]Proper coaching on jumping and landing and avoiding any straight knee landing; [*]Proper footwear and orthotics if necessary (the amount of traction or "grippiness" of athletic shoes needs to fall within an optimal range that minimizes rotational friction to avoid injury yet optimizes transitional friction to allow peak performance in activities such as cutting and stopping). [/LIST] A recent meta-analysis of published ACL injury prevention programs determined that plyometric and strengthening components were more important than balance training and that the favorable effects of training were most pronounced in female soccer players younger than 18 years.6 [/QUOTE]

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